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This Week's Free ChessLecture Video: Remembering Vugar Gashimov
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 10:06PM
With the Gashimov Memorial in full swing, it's worth reminding ourselves about the player it's celebrating. Vugar Gashimov was one of the world's top players before he died from a brain tumor in 2014 at the age of 27. He was liked by everyone, and was a great player with a lively and dynamic style.
To piggyback on the Memorial, ChessLecture's free video this week is one I did showing a Gashimov miniature against no less a player than Boris Gelfand. (An account is necessary - and a free one will do.) It will be available on-demand until a week from this coming Monday.
Reader Comments (1)
Everyone should play a Benoni for him.
I remember watching his games, one of very few playing Benoni at the 2700 level.
[DM: I like your suggestion! I remember at Buenos Aires 1994, an Open Sicilian theme tournament dedicated to Lev Polugaevsky, suffering from a brain tumor that would kill him about 10 months later, no one played the Polugaevsky Variation. That was a real shame.]